Ohio Valley Conference

Several men with Connecticut ties were nominated for the College Football Hall of Fame. Here are bios of people with local ties, followed by the complete list and press release sent out by the foundation:

Rich Diana, Yale-running back-named a first team All-American in 1981 and finished 10th in the Heisman Trophy voting the same year... Two-time first team All-Ivy League selection led Bulldogs to three conference titles... Named a first team Academic All-American and an NFF National Scholar-Athlete in 1981.

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Several men with Connecticut ties were nominated for the College Football Hall of Fame. Here are bios of people with local ties, followed by the complete list and press release sent out by the foundation:Rich Diana, Yale-running back-named a...

UConn junior quarterback and Xavier-Middletown grad Tim Boyle confirmed through text message Saturday he is indeed transferring.
Also, Boyle texted that he was visiting Eastern Kentucky of the Ohio Valley Conference and a member of the Football...

A look at the NCAA tournament's South Regional:
TOP SEEDS
1 Kansas: As they did this year, the Jayhawks won the Big 12 Conference regular-season and tournament titles in 2008, when they last claimed the national championship.
2 Villanova: The...

Eastern Illinois
Despite going 5-7 last season (5-3 in the Ohio Valley Conference), the Panthers were ranked 25th in the preseason FCS coaches poll and picked to finish second behind Jacksonville State in the OVC. Senior quarterback Jalen Whitlow, one of...

Austin Peay baseball coach Gary McClure, the Ohio Valley Conference's all-time leader in wins, has resigned after 27 seasons following his arrest in a prostitution sting.
University officials announced Saturday they accepted McClure's resignation....

Kentucky Coach John Calipari may have summed it up best when he said recently: "I just want the regular season over with."
Amen.
The NCAA tournament, which began Tuesday with play-in games, has arrived to rescue us from months of a different...

More than four decades later, Eddie Fogler can still see Jim Delany dumping their North Carolina basketball teammate Rusty Clark on the floor during a practice at Carmichael Auditorium.
It was payback for the hard screen that Clark, one of the team's...